The
43rd Executive Board Meeting (EBM) of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News
Agencies (OANA) is set to be held in Tehran on Monday.
To
be hosted by the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), the meeting will bring
together directors and senior managers of news agencies from Russia,
Azerbaijan, China, Qatar, Turkey, Malaysia, Oman, Mongolia, South Korea,
Kazakhstan, Japan, Vietnam, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Bulgaria as well as Iran.
Majority
of participating news agencies are among members of the Executive Board of OANA
while some will take part at Tehran summit as observers and guests.
Backed
by UNESCO, the Asia-Pacific News Agency was founded in 1961 with the aim of
facilitating information exchange between countries of the region, and it now
comprises 44 news agencies from 35 Asian and Pacific countries.
The
sixteenth general assembly of OANA was held in November 2016 in Baku where
Azerbaijan was elected to the presidency of the organization. South Korea is
scheduled to be the next president of OANA.
OANA
Executive Board is presently chaired by AZERTAC (Azerbaijan) and includes TASS
(Russia), Xinhua (China), Yonhap (South Korea) as well as Anadolu Agency
(Turkey).
Other
executive board members are IRNA (Iran), BNA (Bahrain), Kyodo News (Japan), NNA
(Lebanon), AAP (Australia), Bernama (Malaysia), VNA (Vietnam) as well as PTI
(India).
Delegates
have began arriving at Imam Khomeini International Airport to attend the meeting.
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